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typist

noun as in secretary

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It’s for any typist in your life, especially millennials nostalgic for the see-through gadgets.

But she found a job as a typist at Radio Tokyo, which enlisted POWs in its propaganda division and recruited her in late 1943 as a disc jockey.

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Pen-and-ink clerks who struggled to top 20 words a minute were displaced by typists who could top 60 wpm, especially if they used new touch-typing techniques pioneered by a Cincinnati stenographer, Elizabeth Longley.

Everyone working on the inquiry was offered support due to the traumatic nature of the evidence, from detectives to the typists tasked with transcribing interviews.

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At 15, she joined the Yorkshire Evening Post as a typist, but was soon taken on as a reporter.

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